October 20-October 26, 2003 THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR The Boston Area Physics Calendar is published weekly during the academic year by the Department of Physics at Boston University. You may send your announcement by e-mail (bapc-events@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu ) or FAX (617-353-9393). We cannot accept announcements by telephone. Entries should reach us no later than 11:00 a.m. the Monday of the week proceeding the week of the event. ENTRIES RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED. Monday, October 20, 2003 4:00pm University of New Hampshire Physics Department Colloquium DeMeritt Hall, Room 209B "The Cause of Relativistic Electron Variability During Storms" Prof. Richard Thorne UCLA Department of Atmospheric Sciences Refreshments will be served at 3:30pm in DeMeritt Hall, 105F Wednesday, October 20, 2004 @4:30p.m. Harvard University Joint Theory Seminar Jefferson 453 "Soft leptogenesis" Yuval Grossman (Technion, B.U., Harvard) Refreshments will be available from 4pm Monday, October 20, 2003 Refreshments following the seminar Monday, October 20, 2003 @4:15p.m. Harvard University Department of Physics Colloquium Jefferson 250 Pattern Formation in a Cold Exciton System Leonid Levitov MIT tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm Monday, Oct.20, 2003, 12:30pm Boston University BU Particles and Fields Seminar Physics Research Building, Room 595 Technicolorful Supersymmetry and Calculable Deformations Roni Harnik UC Berkeley & LBNL Monday, October 20, 2003 Brown University COLLOQUIUM Barus and Holley 168, 4:30 p.m.* Dr. Igor Aronson Argonne National Laboratory Title: "Self-Assembly of Metallic Microparticles in Strong Electric Fields" Host: Professor Dmitri Feldman *Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Monday, October 20, 2003, 2:00PM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday Research Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room 1. ``eta Transitions in Heavy Quarkonium enhanced by the Axial Anomaly''. 2. ``Relative Yield of Charged and Neutral B Meson Pairs at the Upsilon (4S) Resonance'' Mikhail Voloshin University of Minnesota Refreshments will be served Tuesday, October 21, 2003 Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 4:00PM Note new time Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Theory Seminar Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6, Third Floor seminar room `Factorization in color-suppressed B--> n decays" Dan Pirjol MIT Refreshments will be served Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 2pm Rowland Institute Seminar Series Rowland Institute at Harvard 100 Edwin H Land Blvd Cambridge, MA 02142 "Pattern Selection and Boundary Conditions at Infinity" Prof. Mitchell Feigenbaum Rockefeller University Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 4:00pm Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium Physics Building, Abelson 131 "A physicist's guide to the landmine/unexploded ordnance problem: theory and experiment" Dr. Peter B. Weichman ALPHATECH, Inc. Refreshments in Room 333 at 3:30pm Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 3:30pm Boston University Physics Department COLLOQUIUM Metcalf Science Center, Rm 107 Prof. Leon Cooper Brown University "Matrices to Molecules: Towards a Cellular and Molecular Basis for Learning and Memory" *Refreshments served at 3:15pm in Metcalf Science Center Lounge Tuesday, October 21,2003, 4pm High Energy Seminar Northeastern University Room 114 Dana Research Building "Physics of Low-Scale String Models" Ignatios Antoniadis CERN Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 4:00 PM MIT Astrophysics Colloquia Marlar Lounge, Room 37-252 MIT Center for Space Research, 70 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA Dr. Fabrizio Nicastro Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics The Warm Hot Intergalactic Medium Tue Oct 21, 12:30pm George Field (CfA) Mean Field Dynamo Theory Works Fine Dynamo theory has been used for years to understand the growth of large-scale stellar and galactic magnetic fields. Recently Gruzinov and Diamond claimed to show using magnetic helicity conservation that dynamo action is quenched when the large-scale field is still ridiculously small. With Eric Blackman I have shown that this is incorrect, and that instead quenching occurs only when the field is of order equipartition strength. This result has been confirmed by 3D MHD simulations. The seminar will be held in Pratt Conference Room (G04) at CfA (60 Garden St.) at 12:30pm. Tuesday, October 21, 2004 @4:30p.m. Harvard University Phenomenology Seminar Jefferson 453 "Natural High-Scale Supersymmetry Breaking" Tony Gherghetta (Minnesota U.) Wednesday, October 22, 2003 Wednesday, October 22, 2003, 4:00 p.m. UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS at LOWELL DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS COLLOQUIA Olney 218 Dynamics of Gas Phase DNA Dr. Joel Parks Rowland Institute at Harvard, Harvard University Refreshments served at 3:30pm Wednesday, October 22, 2003 Brown University Theoretical Seminar Physics Department B&H 555 2:30P Hadronic Structure from Lattice QCD Dr. Kostas Orginos (MIT) Wednesday, October 22, 2003, 4:30 p.m. Harvard University Joint Atomic Physics Seminar Harvard University Jefferson Laboratory, Room 356 "Matter-Wave Optics with Dark-State Polaritons in Cold Atomic Gases: From Ultra-Sensitive Gyroscopes to Quantum Gates" Dr. Michael Fleischhauer Uni Kaiserslautern Refreshments served at 4:00 p.m. Wednesday, October 22nd, 2003, 4:00 p.m. Joint Theory Seminar Harvard University Jefferson 256 "Beyond Orbifolds: Life without a Higgs" John Terning (Los Alamos) Wednesday, October 22, 2003, 12 noon Brandeis University Condensed Matter Seminar Physics Building, Room 229 "Kinetics pathways of the isotropic-smectic phase transition" Dr. Zvonimir Dogic Rowland Institute, Harvard Thursday, October 23, 2003 Thursday, October 23, 2003, 4:15pm Massachusetts Institute of Technology Building 6 - room 120 Natalie Roe Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory "Looking for a New Angle on CP Violation" Refreshments at 3:45pm in the Lobby of building 6. Thursday, October 23, 2003, 12pm Harvard University The Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Department of Physics Lyman 425 "Lieb-Schultz-Mattis in Higher Dimensions" Dr. M.B. Hastings Los Alamos National Labs Thursday, October 23, 2003, 4:00 p.m. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden Street, Cambridge "A binary taxonomy brain-teaser: the first carbon-enhanced cataclysmic variable" Janet Drew Department of Physics and Astronomy, Imperial College London * tea and cookies at 3:30 p.m. * Thursday, October 23, 2003, 4:15 p.m. Harvard University Duality Seminar Jefferson 453 "Compactifications of the heterotic string on non-Ka"hler complex manifolds" Melanie Becker University of Maryland Refreshments in the High Energy Theory coffee area, 4th floor Jefferson, at 3:45. Thursday, October 23, 2003, 4pm Physics Colloquium Northeastern University Room 114 Dana Research Building "The Hidden Dimensions of the Universe" Ignatios Antoniadis CERN Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics Colloquium Series Thursday, October 23rd 4:15pm Dr. Natalie Roe, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory "Looking for a New Angle on CP Violation" Building 6, Room 120 Refreshments at 3:45 in the Lobby of Building 6 Friday, October 24, 2003 Friday, October 24, 2003, 4:00 PM Harvard University Pierce 209 Condensed Matter and Applied Physics Colloquium Division of Engineering and Applied Science Paula T Hammond MIT "Polymer Assembly at Surfaces and in Solution: from Multilayers to Dendrimers" Friday, October 24, 2003, 3:30 Tufts University Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Robinson Hall, Room 253 Medford Campus "Stellar Models, Interferometry and the Cosmological Distance Scale" Dr. Massimo Marengo Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Institute Refreshments at 3:00 in Knipp Library Robinson Hall, Room 251